Production

Goal

You need to turn raw ingredients into a finished product the till can sell — for example, cook a batch of fish portions or portion a bulk ingredient into sellable units — and have the stock counts, costs, and audit trail updated automatically.

Where this happens

• In the back office (Core App): Stock Management → Production. Tills do not run production — they only sell the finished product.

Production is what the kitchen runs when it cooks a batch of a recipe. It deducts the raw ingredients from stock and adds the finished product, so the till and the kitchen agree on what is available to sell.

Prerequisites

• Sign in to the Core App first — see Login. You land on the dashboard after choosing your store. Needs the right user permission. These menu items follow your user's permissions. If the item shows a restriction marker - or clicking it does nothing - your user does not have permission yet. Ask your franchise admin to grant it (see Who can do what (permissions)).
• You are signed in to the correct store with permission for Stock Management.
• The recipe for the finished product already exists — see Recipes.
• The raw ingredients are in stock (Production will warn you if a line is short).
• The batch size is decided before you start — running partial batches makes the audit trail harder to read.

Steps

The image shows the Core App Production screen. Screens may differ slightly by version.

1. Open Production

1. In the sidebar, expand Stock Management.
2. Click Production.

2. Pick the recipe

1. Search for the item you want to produce - type in the search box and click Search Stock.
2. Click Produce on that item's row. A Production dialog opens showing the item's Description and Current QTY.
3. Enter the Production Qty (decimals allowed). The field is required.
4. Click Produce.
5. Wait for the confirmation - "3 Of Bread Loaf Produced" - and the stock list refreshes with the updated quantity.

Expected result

• The finished product stock count rises by the yield of the run.
• Each ingredient stock count drops by the quantity the recipe says was used.
• The production run has a reference number and a clear note that ties it to the cook and the batch.
• The till can sell the new finished product immediately.

Edge cases

• A recipe is missing from the list. Add the recipe first — see Recipes.
• An ingredient line is short. Receive more stock (see Receiving stock (GRV)), transfer in (see Transferring stock), or reduce the batch size before saving.
• The yield is wrong. Update the recipe first — see Recipes — then re-run production.
• The run saved but the stock counts did not move. Tell your supervisor and check the production run status; the run may need to be completed from the Saved Production Runs list.
• You cooked a different batch than the recipe says. Edit the recipe first, then re-run production — do not change ingredient quantities by hand after the run.
• You need to reverse a production run. Ask your supervisor to reverse the run from the production list. Do not run a second production to "undo" the first.

Related

• Recipes
• Stock
• Fish / fresh-food stock
• Receiving stock (GRV)